Sooner or Later You'll Arrive at Pinterest

Saturday, November 25, 2017
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Sooner or Later You'll

Arrive at Pinterest

    If you do searches for toys on your browser (e.g. Safari or Google), you'll most likely have come across the website of  Pinterest. Pinterest is a site that allows people to "pin" photos that they like and post them ("pin")to their account. Almost all of the "pins" are taken from websites around the Interest without permission. When an image is "pinned", there is a note or credit as to where the image came from.

Please click here to visit the Pinterest website

******* All screen-captures from the Pinterest website*******

I did a search for "cast iron toys", and the screen-capture below illustrates what came up. 

Not all of the images are toys or cast iron. However, there is a good amount to allow you to get an idea as to what a cast-iron toy is.

The image below shows you the sub-categories of your search for "cast iron toy antiques". 

The red arrow is pointing to one of the sub-categories titled "antiques". However,

 if you were to click on this, you would come to a new page with all types of cast iron items, and many would not in fact be antique toys.

The red arrow is pointing to an icon that allows you to send this photo to someone else.

The  pink arrow above is pointing to the save button. When you signed up for Pinterest,  an account was created for you. One of the features is a file folder, allowing you to store and see images that you wanted saved to your account.

The red arrow is pointing to  to an icon that allows you to enlarge the image and see more of it.

The  above blue arrow is pointing to the source of where the image was "captured" from.

Unfortunately, you cannot access the image on the Dan Morphy website, from where the image was "captured". In this case, I'm a little disappointed that Pinterest didn't catch this "minor issue".

The image below show you the enlarged image with the bottom showing. This happened when you pressed on the 4-corner white icon in the previous image is. This is where the red arrow was pointing to.

 The orange  arrow below is pointing to "add photo or note". You can add your own cast-iron toy image or another image here, and you can also comment.

When you press different icons on a Pinterest page, you will see all kinds of cast iron figures similar to the original Popeye character.

When you press another button, all "pins" that are identical or similar to the 

original Popeye toy are presented.

Overall, Pinterest is a very good place to see all kinds of toys. From there, you can be redirected to the original source of the image.  Sometimes, the source will be a blog (e.g. my blog), or an auctioneer, an ebay seller, or a modern manufacturer.

I'm a bit  unhappy that images are "borrowed" without written permission requests. I've seen my own images, as well as images from people who allowed me to use their photos after their permission was granted to me. Unfortunately, this is the 21st century, and that is what the Interest is about.

Below:

The blue and orange old cast iron toy trucks are 2 of my images that I had permission from

 Pook & Pook to use.  I never was asked for permission from the person who pinned", but there is the credit and link back to my blog. At least this is positive- a link to my site, and "free promotion".

Most people may not be aware that their images have been "borrowed", and it's nice to see credit notices as to where the images did come from (without in most cases permission requests).

 Nevertheless, Pinterest does have its' positive attributes for toy aficionados  

and people looking for antique toys.

Pinterest also has an extensive notice about copyright infringement, and I've screen-captured part of their notice below.

Please click here to visit the Pinterest copyright page as seen above

Image screen-captured from the Pinterest website**

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Toysearcher@gmail.com

Stacey Bindman